Weed: 12 Interesting Facts You Should Know
Weed: 12 Interesting Facts You Should Know
Look at some interesting facts about the world’s most beloved plant (Weed, Marijuana, Pot).
Marijuana, also known as weed or pot, refers to the dried leaves, flowers, stems, and seeds from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa, which contains the psychoactive and mind-altering chemical, delta-9-tetra-hydro-cannabinol, or THC, as well as other related compounds. Let’s take a fun look at some interesting facts about the world’s most beloved plant.
Researchers find that 42% of people surveyed in the U.S. have tried marijuana at least once. In contrast, only 20% of people surveyed in the Netherlands, where weed has been legal for 38 years, reported having tried pot; in Asian countries, such as Japan and China, marijuana use is virtually “non-existent,” the study finds.
Out of the estimated 22 million pounds of marijuana grown each year in the United States, nearly 80% comes from California, Tennessee, Kentucky, Hawaii and Washington.
An estimated one-third of America’s weed is grown indoors. An indoor grow module accommodating 4 plants sucks as much electricity as 29 refrigerators. In California, indoor marijuana grow modules account for about 9 percent of household electricity use.
In Colorado, where the recreational use of marijuana was recently legalized, only 9% of residents are regular pot smokers. Denver has surpassed Amsterdam as the capital of the marijuana world. The city has more than 300 stores, called dispensaries, outnumbering pharmacies, liquor stores, public schools and even Starbucks. In Colorado, recreational pot has a hard time competing with medical marijuana, which has been legal since 2000 and whose tax rate is 78% lower. Estimated pot sales are 55 tons of medical pot and 18.4 tons of recreational pot. The use among teens has not increased with the legalization of recreational weed.
Legalizing marijuana federally would generate $8.7 billion in federal and state tax revenue per year.
California was the first U.S. State that banned marijuana a century ago.
In the U.S., a sentence of life in prison without parole was given for trying to sell $10 of marijuana to an undercover officer. Over 800,000 people are arrested for marijuana in the US each year.
Support for weed legalization is rapidly outpacing opposition. A slim majority (52%) of Americans say the drug should be made legal, compared with 45% who want it to be illegal. Opinions have changed drastically since 1969, when Gallup first asked the question and found that just 12% favored legalizing marijuana use.
Weed is legal and is not even classified as a drug in North Korea.
Smoking up could be a very different experience for men and women, according to a 2014 study in the journal, Drug and Alcohol Dependence. In research on rats, it was discovered that females were more sensitive to cannabis’ painkilling qualities, but they were also more likely to develop a tolerance for the drug, which could contribute to negative side effects and dependence on marijuana.
Study after study finds that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol and tobacco. The beer and alcohol industries are two of the biggest anti-marijuana advocates. Obviously, marijuana is a serious threat to alcohol sales. Due to its safer nature, marijuana is often suggested as an alternative to alcohol.
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Sources:
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/top-10-marijuana-myths-and-facts-20120822#ixzz3Q3Sttf1a
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-09/wsu-eic082814.php
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1500 lbs in 15 minutes? Hold my beer.
DUDE! You were only 7 seconds away.
Time for a redo – and im happy to assist 🙂
Not interesting enough
1500 lbs 15 min? I feel you are making a challenge. Hmm. Bonfire?
Best video on weed facts
If everyone just smoked I don’t think there would be wars and so much violence or maybe that’s just me dreaming to much if only tho
Who watching this in 2021
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It is not similar in any way to tobacco false information
And yet its still illegal
I Love Growing Marijuana!!!
Lord shiva
YOU BOOFIN, You forgot Florida out of the most weed grown in a state, ours down here is a multi billion dollar business and it’s only been medically legal for a few years now
YouTube recommendation just after you light a blunt 🤣🤣🤣
My dad’s a doctor, he rather me have a marijuana habit than an alcohol habit.
1500 pounds is false
Cant believe 2015 is already 6 years ago
🙂😘😎✌🙏👩🦯🧍♀️🗣
Can you please do a video on discomfort in the chest area
Weed ruined my 10 years but did it really? I quit, no regrets but I say no.
Lemme go ahead a smoke 1,499 pounds within 15 minutes 🤣🤣🤣🤣
luv ur vids, going back to waych ur old stuff i missed!!
Always wanted to live in Colorado
I’ll say it marijuana makes you feel dumb and sometimes sick . I never smoked a cigarette and got sick .
The reason it would take 1500lbs smoked in 15 minutes to unduce a lethal reaction is because the person would die of carbon monoxide poisoning. If you consumed 1500 lbs of Marijuana that was processed and made into edibles it would just induce a very deep slumber for maybe a day or two 😂
Canada legalized it in 2018
It helps me with my anxiety 🙃
A few years back they legalized marijuana in the state of Oregon, and now they have several problems. Go ahead and let your state legalize marijuana and you can experience the same thing. The inflated prices of building supplies, pollution, the drug deals gone bad, plus not to mention more people on welfare because they can’t get a real job. Many of these places around here hire people under the table so they don’t even pay taxes. I see more people on welfare that can’t pay for their own food but they can afford to buy their marijuana.
thanks for your knowledge kind sir
Nothing in this video is true sorry I wasted my time listening to it.
Why does your mad have no Michigan
It’s not legal because of the money people could make if it was, normal people will be growing better and cheep weed themselves and selling it around.., the government don’t like the thought of this
Wonder where everybody is at now after 8 years😔
Interesting 🤔
its time to legalize marijuana
Im super high
It’s not legal in the Netherlands.
Marijuana helps people with different medical conditions.
the old day 😅
99:59:59
A natural plant should NOT be granted exclusive rights by the USA government! It is GOD given, not man’s nor any government! Neither should that government deny the good from nature! Denial of the good from Cannibus use is a denial of reality!
It’s not bad obviously
Grrrrr….. You cut out 1/2 of Michigan. 0:45 👉✋
Green sweety🤨
I am legally getting zooted while watching this because I am Canadian
WOHAAA THIS VIDEO WAS 5 YEARS AGOOO
As a Canadian I’ve just got one thing to say…YOU LIED TO ME FOR MY WHOLE LIFE.
A real classic if your a channel veteran like me
(Im not bragging)
I rather smoke weed all day then drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes at least im more relaxed and not worried about seizures every day